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U.S. House Speaker John Boehner (R, Crocodile Tears) told the media he was “stunned” Rep. Aaron Schock (R, Illinois) has announced his resignation. Heh. For those who haven’t been following along, Rep. Schock was caught with both hands in the cookie jar. In the finest tradition of Illinois politics, for example, he billed the federal…

WC has expressed his . . . displeasure . . . with Senator Lisa Murkowski (R, Allegedly AK). More than once, in fact. But this time Senator Murky II has brought her hypocrisy road show a little too close to one of WC’s personal interests. To the consternation of the University of Alaska, which had worked…

The late, great Walt Kelly (1913-1973) drew the cartoon Pogo for some 24 years. Pogo, a kind and gentle oppossum, was the only sane character in Kelly’s Okeefenokee Swamp. It was Pogo who uttered the cartoon’s most famous line, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” The phrase originally appear on Kelly’s Earth Day…

Senator Dan Sullivan (R, Ohio, Maryland, Kochtopus) was one of the 47 Republican United States Senators who signed a letter to the Iranian government. The Junior Senator from Alaska signed the letter, which condescendingly claims the Iranian government “may not fully understand our constitutional system” and notes that a new U.S. president could revoke a unilateral…

Remember the furor when MoveOn.org ran this full-page advertisement in the New York Times back in September 2007? The ad triggered a firestorm of criticism. The Senate passed an amendment to “strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus”. All 49 Republican Senators and 22 Democratic Senators voted in support. Democratic Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Chris…

So Dr. Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon (PhD, Southern Cal, Aerospace Engineering) is revealed as a fraud. Soon, who has the same climatologist credentials as you and WC, has for some years spouted climate trutherism to anyone that would listen. It’s not very good science. But he’s been trundled out at committee hearings and conferences by anti-science…

Senator Lisa Murkowski (R, Exxon) announced to the Alaska Legislature last week that President Barack Obama plans to shut down the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. WC can’t make this stuff up. Walking the same path that former Governor Sean “Captain Zero” Parnell used to scare Alaskans into giving Big Oil $2 billion dollars, she’s trying to frighten Alaskans into some…